The "Protecting our Heritage" initiative continues with a series of exciting new events. This series of events, supported by UNESCO and organized by the Washington cluster of the Network of the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) under the 2016 Presidency of the Italian Cultural Institute, is aimed at raising awareness of the nee...

Date: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 - Time: From 7:00 pm To 9:00 pm Organized by : Embassy of Italy/Italian Cultural Institute - Entrance : Free   On the occasion of the XXI Triennale di Milano International Exhibition "21st Century. Design After Design", the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute invite you to the panel dis...

I Senatori Tom Udall e John Barrasso, il Congressman John Tanner, il Direttore finanziario di Lockheed Martin, Bruce Tanner, la Direttrice di Arena Stage, Molly Smith e numerosi altri VIP americani membri dello Steering Committee o sostenitori del Gala annuale della Phillips Collection di Washington hanno reso omaggio alla cultura italiana in un ev...

Mercoledi' 7 agosto 2013 presso l'auditorium dell'Ambasciata Italiana proietteremo: "C'ERA UNA VOLTA IL WEST" (1969) - Regia di Sergio Leone - Durata: 166 min.*FILM IN ITALIANO CON SOTTOTITOLI IN INGLESE La proiezione e' gratuita ma e' necessario registrarsi e RSVP al seguente indirizzo: http://www.iicwashington.esteri.it/IIC_Washingto...

Leonardo da Vinci created masterpieces of art and sculpture. Equally remarkable, his aggregate achievements in engineering, mathematics, anatomy, geology, physics, music, military technology, aeronautics, and a wide range of other fields, not only stood without peer in his own time, but were strikingly prescient for the distant future.   He...

As a younger generation of Italians emigrates in search of better opportunities, an older generation of Italians who have lived abroad for many years look back nostalgically to return to their homeland. The views of these two faces of migration were well-encapsulated in the world-premiere performance of "Moving Out," a two-character theatrical/oper...

BOCCACCIO IN WASHINGTON DC CONFERENCE DATES: OCTOBER 4 - 6, 2013 An international, interdisciplinary conference on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Boccaccio's birth, to be held at Georgetown University and the Italian Embassy. We invite proposals for papers or panels on Boccaccio's life, thoughts and works (in English or Italian). Abst...

You are cordially invited to participate in a roundtable discussion to introduce our professional group, Comunità Scientifica Italiana - Miami, on the occasion of the visit to Miami of His Excellency Claudio Bisogniero, Ambassador of Italy to the United States, Wednesday May 9th 2013 1:15pm to 3:45pm, at the Diabetes Research Institute, Univer...

Con il rapporto annuale pubblicato oggi dall'Amministrazione Obama sul rispetto della proprietà intellettuale, l'Italia viene finalmente rimossa - dopo ben 25 anni di permanenza continuativa - dalla lista dei Paesi sotto osservazione per le criticità nel settore della proprietà intellettuale.   "Risultato di straordinaria importanza" "E' un...

Walk Through: May 15 On display: May 11 - May 25, 2013   Ryan Lizza (New Yorker), Sebastian Rotella (ProPublica), and Frances Sellers (Washington Post) will provide a commentary on the Italy they know and love.   Tour Around Italy is a photographic tour that reveals the diversity of Italian regional cultures and the many hidden treas...